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Ed wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 3) It's SLOW as heck searching for items.   The old winhelp
>    system? It was faster.

My shortcut to get to the info I usually look for is this:

ms-help://borland.bds5/devcommon/languageguidepart_xml.html

There is no simply shortcut to a contents page for just the VCL (that I know of), because each unit seems to have its own entry, for example, StrUtils:

ms-help://borland.bds5/delphivclwin32/StrUtils.html

You can, however, browse to each of the VCL controls from the Contents pane on the LHS of the help screen.

IMO there are three primary problems with the new help:
1) Even though all the old information is in there somewhere, there is a massive amount of additional information that many native Win32 developers will hardly use.  This seems to make searching difficult, because now search terms get many more hits which are often false positives.
2) In the old days, selecting a keyword or type and hitting F1 would produce specific help for that item nearly instantly.   This is no longer the case.  
3) Not only is the launching of dexplore slow, but it is a RAM munching behemoth, and it often seems to persist in task manager even after Delphi is closed.  The "snappiness" of the help is gone.